But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I give haircut to my son. I have made him learn mathematics table. I have also made him learn some spellings and… — Amrapali Gupta Copy Share Image
I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never… — Louise Fitzhugh Copy Share Image
Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Numbers arrange themselves the way numbers will, just as a word will, a story.” — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“4.13. The most striking aspect of Dedekind's definition is that it determines infinity positively, and subordinates the finite negatively. This is its… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language. — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
If you want to be at the top, if you want to be number one, you need to play against some of… — Ruben Dias Copy Share Image
The great thing about the story of 'Twilight', or the story of 'I Am Number Four' is that you get to deal… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
“Math. It’s your favorite subject. Which surprises you. Last year your teacher tried to convince you that you had a real “aptitude”… — Charles Benoit Copy Share Image
“What grinds me the most is we're sending kids out into the world who don't know how to balance a checkbook, don't… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics . . . dare to reprove this work, because of some passage… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
“My birthday is coming up. I was born on March 5th, 1982. Humans have come a long way since then—nearly 30 years,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The thesis of the book,” he writes in response, “when correctly interpreted, is essentially trivial. . . . To ‘prove’ such a mathematical result by… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected. — Edward Griffith Begle Copy Share Image
Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Math will totally make you look like a slut. Example: You're a 25 year old mother of a 9th grader. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
To sum up: I am the man who when the concern pressed him and his way was straitened and he could find… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%. — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
“This is not mathematics, it is theology. (On being exposed to Hilbert's work in invariant theory.)” — Paul Gordan Copy Share Image
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Of the properties of mathematics, as a language, the most peculiar one is that by playing formal games with an input mathematical… — IU?. I. Manin Copy Share Image
Dear Math, please grow up and solve your own problems. I'm tired of solving them for you. Always remember that you are… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I'm just like any other regular mum; cooking, cleaning, wiping butts, picking up after kids, being a wife and helping the kids… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I'm very good in math, and I'm a logical thinker. I don't get wrapped up in things or even wrapped up in… — Alan C. Greenberg Copy Share Image
My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part. — Bernard Bolzano Copy Share Image